Learning With: ‘What We Know and Don’t Know About the Ethiopian Plane Crash’

On March 10, a jetliner bound for Nairobi, Kenya, crashed shortly after leaving Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board — the second deadly crash in under five months involving the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.

The flight route from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, to Nairobi, Kenya, is sometimes referred to as a “U.N. shuttle” because of how often United Nations staff members take it.

On Sunday, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plummeted to the ground shortly after takeoff, killing more than 150 people, the plane had a particularly high concentration of United Nations employees: At least 22 staff members died in the crash, a United Nations official said on Monday.

The airline said the flight had passengers from at least 30 countries, some of whom were aid workers for other humanitarian organizations.

The dead included at least 32 Kenyans; 18 Canadians; nine each from Ethiopia and France; eight each from the United States, China and Italy; and seven from Britain, according to the airline, officials and news accounts.

1. What are some initial possible causes for the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302?

2. What challenges do investigators face determining the cause of a crash? How long can investigations take?

3. Why is early speculation about the cause of a crash often wrong, according to the author?

4. In what ways are Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and the Lion Air crash in October similar? How are they different?

5. When was the Boeing 737 created and when was the Max 8 model introduced? What is unique about the new model?

6. What is the safety record of the 737?

Finally, tell us more about what you think:

As public safety concerns have mounted, aviation regulators from countries around the world, including the United States, have grounded the use of the Boeing 737 Max 8. Take a look at the map “From 8,600 Flights to Zero” and answer these three questions:

President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States was grounding Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft, reversing an earlier decision by American regulators to keep the jets flying after a second deadly crash in Ethiopia.

The order came hours after Canada’s transport minister said that newly available satellite-tracking data suggested similarities between the crash in Ethiopia and another accident last October. In a statement released after Mr. Trump’s announcement, the F.A.A. also cited “newly refined satellite data” as supporting the decision to ground the jets.

The Federal Aviation Administration had for days resisted calls to ground the plane even as safety regulators in some 42 countries had banned flights by the jets. As recently as Tuesday, the agency said it had seen “no systemic performance issues” that would prompt it to halt flights of the jet.

“The safety of the American people, of all people, is our paramount concern,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the White House.

What new information led the U.S. and Canada to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8? Do you think the Trump administration and the F.A.A. made the right decision? Or should they have waited for more information from the crash investigation?

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